System security and physical access.

[William Hooper]

Marc Adler said:
> James Wilkinson wrote:
>
>
>> Not really. It makes obvious what is already known: if someone has
>> physical access to a machine, they have a huge amount of power.
>>
>>
> I was surprised to see that I could access the Linux partition so
> easily. All you have to do is run Partition Commander et al., resize the
> Linux partition, install some version of Windows, get whatever info you
> need, then repeat the process in reverse. No one would be the wiser.

It would be much simpler to just reboot into single user mode.

The point that James was trying to make is that if you don't physically
secure the machine you have no hope of the data on it being secure.


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William Hooper